Skyrim. Played it for about six hours, but it's just not as intuitive as Fallout for me. Levelling up is just nowhere near as rewarding and obvious, and I rarely get on with fantasy at all in any medium let alone games so that didn't help.

Nonsensical questioning, lousy frame rate and why did the main character have such a fat face? I love that era, love police stuff, love slower paced games. I should have loved every minute of this game but I'm not going back to if after getting about halfway through the second desk. Boring. Just, boring.

Not getting on with it at all. Find it too frustrating and full of glitches. I did enjoy it at the start but it's very quickly become a chore.

Yeah I had the same problem with AC3, I found playing as Haytham Kenway the only entertaining part of the entire game. Quite ironic that a game set during the american revolution has an Oh-So-Englishman as the only really interesting character. I finished the game purely because I'd gone and bought it, the rest of it apart from the sea faring missions was largely dull.

Never bothered with Tropico 4 as it just looked more of the same. For the type of game though on the 360 at least I thought 3 was very good. It's not like there is much choice of that type of game on consoles.

Yeah. FWB kept banging on about how good Tropico 3 was and I saw 4 on a Steam sale where it was reduced by 75%. A lot of the reviews I've read basically said that 3 was the best one, but thought I'd give 4 a go. Diverted me for a few hours, but just got a bit annoying after a while!!

I loved Fable II but Fable III just bored me. The mechanics are so stripped back (leveling) they are almost non-existent. The removal of the menu sometimes made it difficult to know where to go next or how to complete side quests (which is probably the opposite the were going for).

I got to the point where I became King and it consisted of about 15 minutes where my only interaction with the game was pressing X or B to make two or three binary choices that I didnt care about.

The combat is as close to pure button mashing as I've ever encountered. You can literally spam the spell button and win every fight.

The world was as charming ever and I loved the regional accents. But that was about it. Not enough to hold my attention.

Blops 2, i stupidly fell for the hype, and good reviews, boreing single player with 2 many cut scenes, its the first cod i couldn't be bothered to finish the campaign, didnt like the mp either maps all very small.

Skyrim - I thought a break would do me good so I loaded back up and was standing in a shop with my bags full. Ok so lets sell all this crap, oh right I remember you have to bend over fucking backwards to sell all your stuff in one go.

It's a fantastic game hindered by strange technical decisions designed to just slow you down needlessly.

I don't know if I can be arsed to spend a whole evening selling the stuff I find.

Maybe i just don't "get" the game but frustrating, repetitive gameplay and constantly being killed by off screen enemies until you trial-and-error learn the layout of levels isn't made any more fun by the unique soundtrack and visuals.

Fantomex wrote:The Witcher 2 (Xbox 360)
I've finished the tutorial and I've done a few of the flashback bits but I'm just not getting it. I know it got really good review scores but it's not gelling with me at all.

This. I don't really like RPGs all that much anyway, but I got this very cheap so gave it a go. I love the storytelling aspect, and I actually perserveered past the prologue and into the main meat of the game. But I just can't be faffed with the stuff in between. The combat is OK, I guess, but isn't very fun. Having 100 different items you need to think about and spend ages combining or examining to progress just gets in the way of following the story I'm enjoying. I don't really dig fantasy settings anyway, and that may be a part of it, but I did try to set that aside.

I'm playing The Witcher 2 at the moment (right now in fact, it's paused) and I see where you're coming from. I'm not far into the game (I'm only doing my fifth or so quest in Flotsam) but it feels like it hasn't got going yet at all. I'm not entirely down on it, but it's failing to hold my attention for long periods and I'm struggling a tad.

skuzzbag wrote:
Skyrim - I thought a break would do me good so I loaded back up and was standing in a shop with my bags full. Ok so lets sell all this crap, oh right I remember you have to bend over fucking backwards to sell all your stuff in one go.

It's a fantastic game hindered by strange technical decisions designed to just slow you down needlessly.

I don't know if I can be arsed to spend a whole evening selling the stuff I find.

I recently abandoned an entire series, though mainly because of one game.

R.I.P. Tomb Raider. Sixteen years of mostly enjoyable fandom is gone, destroyed by an American dev who is obsessed with turning Tomb Raider into Lara Croft: The Last Action Hero. TR9 is the antithesis of everything Tomb Raider is (or was) meant to be.

How is the future Spong? Can you tell me what the last few months lottery numbers are?

I of course assume you are posting from the future and have played the new Tomb Raider that hasn't been released yet in our normal timeline, and are not simply writing off a game you haven't even played yet.

All the eurogamers who actually play with each other on xbl rather than just post pseudointellectual pc handwringing bollocks on the forums, love the shit out of biggy.

I don't have to be a time traveller to form an opinion on the hours of footage, developer's vids, press releases, reams of magazine & website coverage I've seen. I've been a long time member of a big Tomb Raider forum for years, every last detail pertaining to TR9 has been poured over into infinity. And on the basis of all that, I don't like TR9, I don't like it so much that it has poisoned the love I had for the older games.

I could lie and say I have played the game, but I haven't. I turned down an offer to attend a community event in London next month where I could've played the three-hour demo. To be honest, I'd rather lick the pus from a tramp's arsehole than play TR9.